The Alien franchise is one of the most important in all of sci-fi cinema, with each instalment charting the evolution of the genre itself.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we’re ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aliens are a tried and true staple of sci-fi, an element that invites fear and horror, but which can open itself to wonder, ...

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and he has created some truly chilling alien encounters.

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...